Shirt



No Mde1) A. R. PERKINS;

SHIRT.

No. 258,110. f 'Patented 113.5118, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERTR. PERKINS, OF NEWTON, ASSIGNOR TO SIMONS, HATCH 85 WHITTEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,110, dated May 16, 1882, Application iiled February 27, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concer-n:

Be it known that I, ALBERT R. PERKINS, of Newton, of the county of Middlesex, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section, of a shirt of my improved kind, the latter ligure being represented oman enlargedA scale. Figs. 3 and 4 are hereinafter described.

My invention has reference to double-breasted shirts; and it consists mainly in forming the front of the body with a slit vor opening .eX- tending down its middle from the neck or co1- lar to, or nearly to, the waist, and fastening to the body, at or near the edges ofthe slit, two iaps or semi-fronts, each of said semi-fronts being capable of being lapped underneath the upper part of the body, while the other semifront is lapped over or on the outside the body. The cloth at each edge ofthe slit I usually narrowly fold, and stitch the lap down upon Vthe cloth', and I generally likewise finish each edge of each of the semi-fronts and apply to the rear face of such semi-front a lining, and extend such lining underneath and stitch it to the next adjacent part of the body.`

Fig. 3 represents the upper portion of thc front of the body A as slit down its middle, from its upper edge to, or nearly to, the waist, the slit being shown at a. Fig. tis a representation of the form ot'each of the semi'fronts. Having thus slit the body, I usually narrowly plait it along the line b cd ef and stitch down the plait, and make in the cloth, at short distances from and parallel to the plait, one or more rows of stitching. Next I secure to the slitted body-front A the two semi-fronts B B, one being fastened to it on one side of the slit, or ator near one edge of it, and the other being fastened to it on the other side of the slit, or at or near the other edge thereof.

The shirt so made will be double-breasted and have the appearance of having two breastfronts to itsbody, each of the semi-fronts bemay be two rows of lacing-holes and a lacing run through such, and there may be in the collar or neekband holes and eyelets to receive the lacings.

My improvement is particularly adapted to the manufacturing of shirts of flannel, such as are lusually termed overshirths,77 as worn by riders ot' bicycles.

I do not claim a shirt having its neekband attached to the body only at the back of the neck-opening and the bosom attached at its upper edge only to the front of the neekband and shirt-body, as represented in the United States Patent No.169,333, as my inventionY diii'ers materially therefrom, inasmuch as it has two'senii-fronts sewed to opposite edges of a slit made downward within the front of the body, as hereinbefore represented, neither of such semi-fronts being otherwise sewed to the body.

I claim as my inventionl. A shirtbody, A, slit down the middle ot' its .front fromthe neck to, or about to, the waist of such body, as described, in combination with two separate semi-fronts, B B, arranged with the slit a and sewed to the edges thereof, all being substantially as set forth.

2. A shirtebody slit down the middle of its front from the neck thereof and plaited, as de scribed, in combination with two separate semifronts, arranged with the slit a and sewed to the edges thereof, all being substantially as set forth.

ALBERT R. PERKINS.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

